SEATED WITH THE KING, THIS IS OUR DESTINY

Jan. 8, 2014

SEATED WITH THE KING, THIS IS OUR DESTINY

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved, and raised us up with Him, and SEATED US WITH HIM IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Eph. 2:4-8

My friends this is just WHERE WE BELONG, THIS IS OUR DESTINY, SEATED WITH THE KING “….So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.  For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.” Heb. 10:35-37

My friends we must never cease to realize that our Salvation is only  possible because of God’s “AMAZING GRACE, OH HOW SWEET THE SOUND” so WHO AM I THAT YOU CALL ME BY MY NAME, AND YOU COUNT ME AS ONE OF YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. Oh the amazing feeling as Gods chosen to be called by name, and what’s so great about that is, it now becomes personal.

And my faith lies in the fact that “He counteth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.” Ps 147:4 And how much more for his Children created in His image. But we are also sheep, not knowing our way back to the Good Shepherd when we are lost.

Remember Satan’s only concern is to get us away from the Shepard and destroy. “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” Romans 8:36 “even if only one goes astray, he leaveth the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray”My friends not only GRACE are we offered, but we have A Savior who personally “came to seek and to save the lost” so that we may be SEATED WITH THE KING one day.

I remember as a kid probably no more then 13 or 14. A friend and myself decided to run away from school aka. home. Of course we had done something that we had gotten punished for, from my mother who was the Principle of the school, and of course I knew for me the punishment would continue when I got home and my father got  hold of me.

So off we went. Of course I was following someone I had no business being a friend with, but that is another story for another day. It was in the cold of the winter and we roamed the streets of course with no where to go. So like kids we got tired  and cold.

So about 1 oclock in the morning we go back to the school and break in so we could have a warm place to lay our head for the night but wouldn’t you know it my parents knew exactly where to come looking for me and they knew the place in the school we would even be hiding, which was under the baptismal pool. HOW DID THEY KNOW.

And HOW DOES CHRIST KNOW WHEN, WHERE, AND AT WHAT TIME TO COME LOOKING FOR US, My friends it was all about the LOVE OF PARENTS who just knows. And also “In this the LOVE OF GOD was made manifest among us, that GOD SENT HIS ONLY SON into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is LOVE, not that we have LOVED GOD but that HE LOVED US and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 OH SUCH LOVE.

So my Friends as Children of God our focus should only be on Jesus Christ, and what He has done, and continues to do daily for our Salvation. Nothing else should define this journey that God has placed each of us on. So if our Goal is the kingdom of God, then we must never loose sight of Christ and what He endured on The Via Dolorosa, the road Jesus walked from the place of Pontius Pilate’s sentencing, to Golgotha,“On a hill far away” TO SAVE YOU AND I SO THAT WE MAY ONE DAY SOON BE SEATED WITH THE KING. MY FRIENDS THIS MUST BE OUR GOAL, BECAUSE THIS IS OUR DESTINY IF WE BELIEVE.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY